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Coles A Tramp Abroad: Restored Classics to Go Edition at Bayshore Shopping Centre in Ottawa, ON
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In Chamonix, Twain finds a village turned tourist crossroads, where villagers, excursion seekers, guides, and porters crowd beneath Mont Blanc's immense shadow. He lingers over the mountain's uncanny evening beauty, then satirizes the tightly regulated Guild of Guides, its fees, rules, relics of disaster, and official diplomas, even attempting in vain to buy one for an invalid friend. His comic "scientific" theories about moonlight and mountain scale give way to real danger when he recounts the tragic fall of three English brothers, watched in horrified silence through telescopes from far below. At the same time, Twain keeps turning alpine grandeur into playful absurdity: after a telescope-assisted "climb" to Mont Blanc's summit, he revels in the illusion before undercutting it with blunt practical wit. The travel sketch also widens to Venice, where St. Mark's Cathedral becomes a strangely perfect monument of age and beauty, and a tale of theft from its treasury ends in betrayal and execution. Threaded through it all is Twain's sharp homesickness for American food, as he mocks Europe's pale breakfasts and disappointing dinners with relentless, affectionate precision. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.
In Chamonix, Twain finds a village turned tourist crossroads, where villagers, excursion seekers, guides, and porters crowd beneath Mont Blanc's immense shadow. He lingers over the mountain's uncanny evening beauty, then satirizes the tightly regulated Guild of Guides, its fees, rules, relics of disaster, and official diplomas, even attempting in vain to buy one for an invalid friend. His comic "scientific" theories about moonlight and mountain scale give way to real danger when he recounts the tragic fall of three English brothers, watched in horrified silence through telescopes from far below. At the same time, Twain keeps turning alpine grandeur into playful absurdity: after a telescope-assisted "climb" to Mont Blanc's summit, he revels in the illusion before undercutting it with blunt practical wit. The travel sketch also widens to Venice, where St. Mark's Cathedral becomes a strangely perfect monument of age and beauty, and a tale of theft from its treasury ends in betrayal and execution. Threaded through it all is Twain's sharp homesickness for American food, as he mocks Europe's pale breakfasts and disappointing dinners with relentless, affectionate precision. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.
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